How To Install dh-runit on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dh-runit
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is dh-runit
dh-runit is:
dh-runit provides a debhelper sequence addon named ‘runit’ and the dh_runit command.
The dh_runit command installs runscripts and adds the appropriate code to the postinst, prerm and postrm maint scripts to properly enable/disable and purge runscripts. When runit is PID 1 the maint script code also takes care of restarting services during upgrades, when appropriate.
There are three methods to install dh-runit
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install dh-runit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dh-runit
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dh-runit
Install dh-runit Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dh-runit
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dh-runit
Install dh-runit Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install dh-runit
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dh-runit
How To Uninstall dh-runit on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the dh-runit
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dh-runit
Uninstall dh-runit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dh-runit
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dh-runit
Remove dh-runit Configurations and Data
To remove dh-runit
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dh-runit
Remove dh-runit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dh-runit
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dh-runit
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dh-runit
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.